Mummies : in nature and around the world. From flourishing life to dust : the natural cycle of growth and decay / Burkhard Madea, Johanna Preuss and Frank Musshoff -- Natural mummification : rare, but varied / Wilfried Rosendahl -- People from the ice / Angelika Fleckinger -- Bog bodies : preserved bodies from peat / Heather Gill-Frerking -- Mummies : a tour of the cultures. Mummies, mummification techniques and the cult of the dead in ancient Egypt : a chronological overview / Tanja Pommerening -- Animal mummies and the worship of animals in ancient Egypt / Heimo Hohneck -- Mummies in the Andean regions : the presence of the dead / Virginia and Michael Tellenbach -- Mummies from Oceania : a brief overview / Eva-Maria Günther -- Mummies in Australia : a special form of aboriginal burial rites / Corinna Erckenbrecht and Heinz H. Klaatsch -- Mummies in China / Jeanette Werning -- The Altai lady and her companions : mummies of the Scythian Pazyryk culture / Barbara Kerneck -- Living Buddhas : mummies in Japan / Melanie Janssen-Kim -- Mummies of the indigenous inhabitants on the Canary Islands / Ursula Thiemer-Sachse -- Mummies in monasteries and churches : monks, popes and princes / Ina Wunn -- Naturally mummified corpses from the Dominican Church in Vác, Hungary / Ildikó Szikossy [and others] -- A death -- beyond life -- Lenin, Mao, Evita / Luisa Reiblich -- Mummification today : a very modern affair / Angela Graefen and Kurt W. Alt -- Mumia and mummies in medicine and art. Mumia : from Ozokerite to cure-all / Tanja Pommerening -- Mumia vera Aegyptiaca : a western apothecary's remedy / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif -- "Mumia" and asphalt in the art of painting / Klaus Jürgen-Fischer -- Mummies talk : modern mummy research methodologies. Mummy insights : x-ray analysis and computed tomography / Kurt W. Alt and Frank J. Rühli -- Determination of mummy origins using molecular genetic analyses / Christina Rütze, Peter Forster and Joachim Burger -- Isotopic analysis of keratin : information about living environment and nutrition / Hervé Bocherens -- Chemical toxicological analysis of hair samples : evidence of narcotics in mummies, too? / Frank Musshoff and Burkhard Madea -- Infested, cursed, contaminated : microbial and chemical contamination in mummies / Jens Klocke and Karin Petersen -- Conservation of mummies : having bones to pick with the dead / Jens Klocke -- Rapid prototyping in medical technology and its application in mummy research / Arthur T. Bens -- Facial reconstruction of mummies : the example Baron von Holz / Ursula Wittwer-Backofen -- Mummies and the media. "Dead or alive? Human or inhuman?" : mummies in film / Diana Wenzel -- Mummies in print : exploring mummy books for children and young adults / Heather Gill-Frerking.

Mummies from around the world. Frankfurt's dinosaur mummy / Bernd Herkner -- Animal mummies found in lava caves in the Jordanian Desert / Stephan Kempe and Ahmad Al-Malabeh -- Natural animal mummies on exhibit at the State Museum of Natural History in Braunschweig, Germany / Ulrich Joger -- A mummified fire salamander found in a cave in the northern Franconian Alb of Germany / Brigitte Hilpert -- Animal mummies from the Eve-Maria Zimmermann Collection, Tenerife, Canary Islands / Matthias Feuersenger -- The salt mummy of a yellow-brown boxfish from Hurghada, Egypt / Matthias Feuersenger -- Dima : the baby mammoth / Doris Döppes -- Two unusual glacier animal mummies / Wilfried Rosendahl and Doris Döppes -- The bog dog from Burlage / Markus Bertling, Heather Gill-Frerking and Wilfried Rosendahl -- Bodies buried in bogs : the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands / Vincent T. Van Vilsteren -- Egyptian animal mummies : the University of Bonn Collection / Gabriele Pieke and Silke Grallert -- Interment, grave goods and eternal life in ancient Egypt : explained by objects from the University of Heidelberg / Dina Faltings -- Two child mummies and some grave goods of the Byzantine Period from the Egyptian Collection at Heidelberg University, Germany / Beatrix Gessler-Löhr -- Egyptian mummies : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl [and others] -- Egyptian mummies : the Merck Archives in Darmstadt / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif [and others] -- Egyptian mummy skulls : the Marburg Zoological Collection / Jan Harbort -- The Egyptian mummies from Basel / Wilfried Rosendahl [and others] -- The mummy and coffins of Nes-pa-kai-schuti / Dagmar Budde -- The "mummy" from Jena / Matthias Rupp, Sabine Birkenbeil and Sandra Bock -- An Asian mummy from the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl [and others] -- Mummies from Oceania : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Michael Tellenbach [and others] -- South American mummies from the Ethnological Collection of Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany / Mechtild Freudenberg -- "Gray and brown" pre-Columbian mummies : the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold / Roger Meyer [and others] -- Peruvian mummies from Delémont, Switzerland / Anna-Maria Begerock [and others] -- Mummies from South America : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collections / Wilfried Rosendahl [and others] -- Mummies found in the Dominican Church in Vác, Hungary / Ildikó Szikossy, Lilla Alida Kristóf and Ildikó Pap -- Mummies from Palermo / Dario Piombino-Mascali [and others] -- The mummies from Sommersdorf Castle / Manfred Baron Von Crailsheim -- Historical mummies of human fetuses at the Kassel Museum of Natural History / Jana Mesenholl, Kai Füldner and Wilfried Rosendahl.